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Kundra's IT agenda focus will be on 'troubled' projects

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra outlined for reporters this week where his IT agenda will take the federal government and how it will get there.

At the top of his agenda will be to conduct three to four meetings a week with federal CIOs to evaluate whether the plug should be pulled on troubled tech projects or whether they should be restarted. Kundra referred to these as 'TechStat' sessions in a conference call with reporters. He said they will increase in 2011 as he looks for ways to keep federal IT under control.

"The TechStat sessions are a big part of what we're going to do--review all these investments and take decisive action so we can terminate projects that are not benefiting the American people," Kundra said, according to the Federal Times. He added that there's money in President Obama's 2011 budget proposal to increase "the velocity and frequency of these sessions."

"We want to be able to create an environment where CIOs across the federal government feel comfortable sharing best practices," he said.

Among Kundra's other plans are more web innovations to make government even more transparent and mobile, and the relaunch of the IT dashboard to better keep track of federal IT projects.

For more on Kundra's plans:
- see this Federal Times article

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It's the only thing he was ever good at.

Dear Mr.Kundra,
I am familiar with the resistance of getting best practices in place.I would not consider it an option for any manager first to be made comfortable to get him or her to consider sharing best practices.
There is an obvious systemic lack of communication throughout the entire government's I.T. infrastructure.Why else would 1980's legacy technology still be in place? If the underlying technologies are so compromised and out-dated,no new Web presence is going to correct it.

I would ask each I.T. CIO and Government Department Head to: justify every single piece of software,hardware, application and infrastructure resource they currently use(zero sum budgets), eliminate 15-20% of their operating costs, and acheive availability metrics in line with today's Internet.

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